Melanie Smallman is an Associate Professor in Science and Technology Studies at UCL, Co-Director of the UCL Hub for Responsible Research and Innovation and a Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute. Melanie's research focuses on how responsibility and ethics is understood and enacted in research and technology development, and how these issues affect public perceptions and social acceptance of technologies.  Specifically, she is interested in the role of technologies in increasing inequality and how these wider social impacts can be taken account of within ethical frameworks. Previously, Melanie ran science policy and communication consultancy Think-Lab and spent eight years as an adviser within the UK Government. She is a former Fellow in Science, Technology and Society at the Harvard Kennedy School for Government and has a PhD in Science and Technology Studies from UCL.